#advance

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. ↗

— Og Mandino

#concentrates #foolishly #great #great man #her

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. ↗

— John McCarthy

#advance #blame #countries #course #failure

I don't plan massively in advance. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#i #massively #plan

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#custom #despotism #everywhere #hindrance #human

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#alternative #approach #concealed #deployment #detect

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#around #earth #how #insists #like

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#as far as #century #far #held #huxley

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#because #been #diet #different #disease

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. ↗

— Larry Page

#around #ask #been #doing #driven

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#already #am #art #because #boring